Thematic Bible: Duty to widow and fatherless
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Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.
Verse Concepts
This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalize the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
Verse Concepts
Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come, eat, and be satisfied. And the Lord your God will bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
Verse Concepts
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Verse Concepts
“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
Verse Concepts
“When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.
Verse Concepts
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Seek justice.
Correct the oppressor.
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.
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